“Plants with higher brix readings are more resilient to disease and insect attack.” –from The Conscious Farmer website Go to their website to read more about: Brix scores are indicative of plant health and healthy food.
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Ginger Snaps
Flour with a bit of buckwheat
Cookies with a crack of pepper
About Those Bags
The Truth About Compostable Coffee Bags Our CG bags are constructed with the Earth First film and can either be recycled or (as it turns out) partially composted after the tin tie is removed. We’re not sure about the labels, however, and will report here when we know more.
The Right Kind of Flour
The Right Kind of Flour Filmed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival Dr. Stephen S. Jones, Director Stephen Jones is a wheat breeder and the Director of the The Bread Lab. Stephen has a PhD in Genetics from the University of California at Davis and teaches graduate courses in advanced classical genetics and in the…
Overnight Country Bread
“Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast” by Ken Forkish guided the development of our Flour from the Front blends. Starting with the Overnight Country Brown recipe on page 173, using no commercial yeast, we inversed the amount of white flour and whole grain flour in the final dough to make beautiful loaves. Our original sourdough starter (levain)…
Book by David Montgomery
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life https://g.co/kgs/ddkVqZ
Water Infiltration Demonstration
June 2018, NRCS Field Day at Spring Coulee Farm … The rainfall simulator sprays 5 trays of soil from different cultivation practices. The jars in front hold runoff water; the back row of jars show the water that has been able to move through the soil. Our SCF soil tray is on the far right…
Gulch Distillery
View this post on Instagram Made by Gulch Distillery for Gay Pride Week using currants from Spring Coulee Farm. Gulch is now also using our Conservation Grains winter wheat to make wonderful gin and vodka. We're proud! A post shared by Conservation Grains (@conservationgrains) on Dec 26, 2018 at 6:03pm PST
Sam’s Cooking Again
“Got your lovely flour. So many thanks! Promptly put it to work. And…that’s a braided venison tenderloin ala Seven Fires, coated in crushed olives and anchovies. Jolly Holly!”
First Flax
This is Spring Coulee Farm’s first flax crop. It was beautiful, and a good rotation crop following spring wheat. We harvested it with a stripper header, leaving those tenacious, gnarly flax stalks standing in the field this winter to catch snow and provide cover and food for the pheasants.